The Internet was cool while it lasted
Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy
Submitted 2 months ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.zip
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theneverfox@pawb.social 2 months ago
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
We’ll just continue to make our own internet with blackjack and hookers. Too much knowledge is already out.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Isn’t that just the “dark web”
eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The Internet is just a bunch of AS running open source protocols on commercially available infrastructure. It’s doing fine. The hosted commercial services might be fucked, but you can run your own.
You’re using such a service right now.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
no you can’t “run your own” for very long if that means you are breaking the law and can be legally punished for not complying with laws like this :(
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Until the government beats down the door of whoever’s not following their BS laws and shuts them down.
Vieric@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a feature, not a bug.
myrmidex@belgae.social 2 months ago
To reinforce the plausible deniability of politicians of course. It’s all about manufacturing consent.
mickus@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Considering the recent comments from Merz that is indeed the point
Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Du hast Fotzenfritz falsch geschrieben
eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
These guys are actually begging for it.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
To be fair this kind of thing certainly hasn’t gone wrong with Germany before!
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Age restrictions and id verification side step the real issue that they don’t want to deal with.
Actually regulating the companies making these addictive, harmful sites.
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The real problem is children on the Internet. The real solution is getting parents to use parental control software.
If you’re a full grown adult using Facebook, much less addicted to it, ya get what ya deserve.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s frustrating that they act like it’s private right now. The whole situation is typical absurd human behavior.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 months ago
BranBucket@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Algorithm-based, ad supported social media is a public health crisis and damages people of all ages. It should be destroyed. At that point we don’t have to worry about it’s effect on kids or them using VPNs to circumvent age restrictions.
Seems like a more effective solution to me.
Sunshine@piefed.ca 2 months ago
The only way to use VPN with how things are going at this rate is through mail in cash or Monero.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yet another mullvad W
eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
With a bit of infrastructure, today you can detect and disrupt any VPN session. This is coming soon to your country, too.
pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
You also can avoid all of these disruptions by camouflaging your packets as some generic protocol, which is already quite easy e.g. in Mullvad by using shadowsocks and ai disruption (randomising, among others, packet size and intervals). In fact, it will always be impossible to detect VPNs without deep packet inspection - and that would require banning ALL internet traffic encryption, which seems unrealistic because of the astronomical downsides, even in today’s political situation.
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yep, and “age verification” is just a euphemism for identity verification.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Corporate needs you to find the difference between [UK] and [China]
They are the same picture .jpg
Jaysyn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Which is the entire point.
Greddan@feddit.org 2 months ago
Good luck! My child is behind 7 proxies!
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Yes, and it’s also a bad idea that has no place in a free society for many other reasons.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What if you buy your child a VPN that is outside of UK?
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 months ago
And that’s why the UK law is so stupid.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The global pedofile oligarch greater Israel project noose tightens
gnuthing@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
And here I don’t let my kids access the internet at all without a VPN
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep, that’s the plan.
It should be obvious by now that governments don’t give one fuck about protecting kids. Not one single fuck.
derAbsender@piefed.social 2 months ago
Well… Fucking and children and people associated with power …. We have learned there is no real “not” in this Chain…